Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice
A Short History of Asylum by
Ingham
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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A Short History of Asylum
by J. W. Ingham, 1916
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Photos by Joyce M. Tice
Retyped for Tri-Counties by Anne PRATT Slatin
(Joyce's Third Cousin)
and Formatted by Joyce M. Tice
Many thanks to the Tri-Counties guest who sent
this book to Joyce and who wishes to remain anonymous.
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CHAPTER V.
HOUSES AND GARDENS DESCRIBED.
The following description of one of the houses
at Asylum no doubt describes most of the others. It was No. 416-417 and
belonged to Miss Seybert. It was a "log house 30x18 feet, covered with
nailed-on shingles. The house is divided into two lower rooms and two in
the upper story. The lower ones are papered. On both sides of the house
stand two small buildings of the same kind; one is used for a kitchen,
the other being papered, is commonly called the dining room. Both these
buildings have good fire places, and are one and a half stories high. Three
rooms in the biggest house have fire places. The two side buildings and
the other are joined together by a piazza. There is a good cellar under
the dining room. The yard is enclosed by paling fence, the palings nailed
on. The garden has a like fence with a good double gate. A constant stream
of water runs through the garden. Over the spring, a spring house has been
erected which is divided into two rooms, one of them being floored. The
garden is decorated by a considerable number of fruit trees, young Lombardy
poplars and Weeping Willows. The garden also contains a latticed summer
house. Next to the garden is a nursery of about 900 apple trees. The lower
part of the lot forms a piece of meadow of about eight acres enclosed by
a post, and rail fence. On the same lot stands a horse grist mill, which
is 40 feet long and 34 feet wide. Part of the lower story is contrived
into a stable for the mill horses and a cow stable. Part of the upper story
is used to keep fodder. The mill is double geared, and in complete order,
being furnished with a good pair of stones, good bolting cloth, and in
one corner stands a good fire place. Above the mill runs a never failing
spring which waters a great part of the meadow."
